Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chile's Herrera was not copycatting anybody. He was middleaged, had painted a lot before he ever saw Rousseau's work. His father, a successful businessman, called all artists "monkey drawers," made his son swear by the Holy Virgin that he would not take up art as long as his father lived. Young Luis kept his oath till he was in his middle 30s. But when he was a schoolboy he made such beautiful maps that his geography teacher told the other children to copy them...
...only dame he could never make,' said one of his admirers good-naturedly. 'He wants to MARRY her!' The Sheik only chuckled. 'F- you, Mac,' he said, indulging in the Marines' favorite word. 'The trouble with you is you never met a virgin...
...Song of Bernadette, which has sold half a million copies since its publication eight months ago. Many Roman Catholics have been amazed that anyone not of their faith could write so reverently and eloquently about the French girl, Bernadette Soubirous (1844-79), to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times telling her to spread the news that the waters of Lourdes had been endowed with miraculous healing powers...
...adolescent Dali made plans to be "uninterruptedly in love." These plans were "organized with a total bad faith and a refined Jesuitical spirit. ... I always chose girls whom it was doubtful or impossible that I should ever see again." Dali was still a virgin...
Hormone Expert Dr. S. J. Folley of the British National Institute for Research in Dairying has announced successful results from experiments to get milk in large quantities from virgin goats. Ordinarily goats do not give milk until they have kidded. But kidding involves energy-consuming gestatory processes which slow milk production and may be undesirable in wartime. Dr. Folley causes virgin goats to develop udders and commence giving milk by treating them with the synthetic hormones diethylstilbestrol and hexestrol. By similar synthetic-hormone magic the quality of milk given by a cow can be controlled to some extent...